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    Pithos in situ in Building O (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    HoB 463: Pithos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Pithos

Date
Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P70.034
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Pithos
Pottery Ware
Lydian Plainware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Building O
B-Grid Coordinates
W31 / S93 *97.5
Findspot
W31 / S93 *97.5 at rim
Description

Nearly complete pithos. Orange-brown clay is coarse, with gravel and pebbles in it. Flaring ledge rim; short neck; spherical body tapers to flat base. A rope pattern on a raised band at the base of the neck. Black burn marks on the exterior.

Sidney M. Goldstein reported (1970) that the interior might show evidence of piecing sections together in antiquity. Shown in situ in Fig. 6.23.

Dimensions
H. 1.20, Diam. of rim 0.465, Diam. of belly 0.95.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD